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Friday 2 June 2017

That ghastly orange manatee currently inhabiting the White House announced on Wednesday that he was to withdraw the USA from the Paris climate agreement, which 195 countries signed with the aim of reducing global warming so that, well, we don't all die in flames.

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Donald Trump, whose face will not feature in this piece due to the fact it makes this writer too angry, had made a campaign pledge to remove the US from the agreement which he said unfairly benefited other countries.

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"We want fair treatment," Trump said. "We don't want other countries and other leaders to laugh at us anymore." OH MY GOD MAN, IT'S SO TOO LATE FOR THAT.

He added that he was pulling this frankly ludicrous move to benefit the people who voted for him.

The Heads of State of Germany, France and Italy signed a joint rebuke of Trump's decision. Mortifyingly, the UK did not sign it; presumably because post-Brexit our position will be to suck up to any old idiot with "President" in his notepaper heading.

This is Zoey. She really likes the planet. Would hate to see willful ignorance and the denial of fairly elemental science destroy it. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/T1xlgaPujm

Trump's decision also led to a political firestorm over on the popular cute account, We Rate Dogs. Its manager, Matt Nelson, had previously apologised for making his account "political" by offering to give proceeds of a hat he made that took the piss out of Trump's covfefe typo to Planned Parenthood.

When criticised for his political stance in posting a picture of a dog with a climate change caption ("You really can't avoid the political commentary, can you? Stick to just commenting on dogs,") Nelson, replying as the account, said succinctly: "Stick to fucking off."

When asked to explain why he was being vocal now, he said that being apolitical was "not even worth it".

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"None of these issues are right or left, they're right or wrong," he said.

It will take Trump four years to remove the USA from the Paris accord. One tiny gleaming light? The old fool might have been impeached by then.